Arty lovebirds craft 4000 paper cranes for their rainbow wedding

Another spectacular wedding album by Adelaide photographer B Captured by Ky Luu. (You may remember the extraordinary images we featured from Faith & Michael’s steampunk wedding.)

This time Ky had loads of bright colour to work with in the rainbow wedding of Mildura artists Kirbi Kennewell and Nicholas Stamp.

Whilst the bridesmaids wore strapless ruffle dresses each in a different colour and their partners in ties and Converse to match, Ky also had the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery – the location of Kirbi’s first ever art exhibition and the place where she would eventually say ‘I do’ – as an awe-inspiring backdrop.

An icon of the arty couple’s relationship which became the showpiece of their creative theme was the paper crane. Four thousand origami birds in an array of colours hung from branches on every table (the very branches from the tree under which the pair had their first kiss!) They lit up the reception hall and sat in cascading formation down the quirky wedding cake.

Twenty-nine-year-old Kirbi explains, “From the day we met at university, Nick [28] has made me paper cranes out of anything he could find and I have kept every one of them to this day.”

She adds, “Our friends all helped to make our colourful cranes for months prior. Quite often the groomsmen sat in our lounge room watching The Footy Show, all with a book to lean on and a pile of coloured paper. It was not unlike that of a mothers’ quilting club and is probably what I will miss most of all.”

The pair celebrated their unique style with 149 guests, choosing an eclectic selection of music, including, aptly, Kermit the Frog’s ‘Rainbow Connection.’